Materials handling company, the Kion Group, has successfully completed its $2.1 billion dollar (A$2.86 billion) acquisition of automation and supply chain optimisation specialist Dematic earlier this month.
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Boral cements its acquisition of US building products maker
Boral has entered into a binding agreement to acquire US building products maker Headwaters.
The US$2.6 billion deal is subject to shareholder approval and regulatory approval, and is expected to complete
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Slow motion inspection camera for packaging plants
The X-Stream XS-720p slow motion camera by IDT offers continuous frame streaming via the PCI express 2.0 x4 interface with a sustained transfer speed of 1.75GB/sec.
I has been designed for checking and
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The real issues with the 457 visa aren’t being addressed
Is Geelong Australia’s new ‘carbon capital’?
Geelong, Victoria's second city, has emerged as an area of great expertise for advanced materials - particularly carbon fibre composites - in recent years. Brent Balinski spoke to Quickstep’s Carl De Koning about the company’s New Technology division, headquartered at Waurn Ponds.
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OPINION: So how will the manufacturing sector respond to President Trump?
According to a recent article in Forbes, America’s manufacturers are getting very worried.
As you read this, a number of influential US manufacturers and their associated industry representatives are
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AusNet profits fall by 52 per cent
Victorian energy company AusNet Services’ first-half statutory net profit has fallen by 52 per cent on its previous year’s result.
Net profit for the six months to September 30 was $178.6 million,
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BlueScope launches workplace safety app
BlueScope Steel has partnered with TOLL, K&S Transport and Buzinga App Development to improve health and safety methods for their employees and contractors through the safety app, ‘SteelDrive’.
The
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Talking robots will soon be here
Voice recognition software maker Nuance Communications has announced that robot maker ROOBO will be using the Nuance Mix NLU development platform, which provides voice and natural language (NLU) capabilities,
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Incitec still nervous about its recovery
Australia’s car industry ignored the elephant in the room: carbon emissions
Ford’s closure of its Geelong manufacturing plant last month is part of a broader story about Australia’s
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Did Murray Goulburn overstate its earnings?
A forensic accountant has alleged that dairy processor Murray Goulburn may have overstated its earnings and even lost money in the last financial year.
It was claimed in early November that its treatment
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Tetra Pak expands regional manufacturing footprint with US$110 million Vietnam factory
Bolstered by rapid consumption growth and increasing customer needs in the Asia Pacific region, leading food processing and packaging solutions company Tetra Pak today announced their US$110 million investment
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New pipe and tube cutting software
US-based Hypertherm has released Rotary Tube Pro, software that makes it easier to design and cut tube and pipe parts with no 3D CAD experience required.
The software features a parametric design interface
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Carbon capture industry must expand says global body
Speaking at a press conference to launch its Global Status of CCS: 2016 Report at the twenty second conference of the parties (COP 22) in Marrakech yesterday, Global CCS Institute Chief Executive, Brad
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GM to cut 2,000 jobs due to shifting consumer demands, low fuel prices
General Motors will cut 2,000 jobs across two sites in the US, in response to lower demand for cars in favour of trucks and crossover vehicles.
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Indonesia steel demand to surge due to auto production, says Posco
Indonesia’s growing automotive sector will see the country’s need for steel increase sharply in the coming years, according to research from Posco.
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Tesla to acquire Grohmann Engineering, launch German HQ
Tesla Motors has announced its agreement to acquire German company Grohmann Engineering in an effort to further automate its factories and increase production.
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Production begins for Chevy Volt EV
Chevrolet has started manufacturing its Bolt electric hatchback vehicles at Orion Township, Michigan, which will sell for $US 30,000 after a federal tax break.
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Chinese imported vehicles’ image has suffered, admits former Great Wall distributor
The former distributor of brand Great Wall has admitted that the vehicles’ history in Australia did significant damage to the local perception of Chinese-made cars.
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